Friday, January 23, 2015

Golden Earring - Moontan (1973) (Vinyl, Lossless)

Moontan is an album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1973. It contains their most notable radio hit, "Radar Love" and was voted best Dutch pop album ever by readers of music magazine Oor in 2008. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #32 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

According to Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath, while recording their fifth album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Tony Iommi suffered from writer's block and was not able to produce any riffs that used to be the main body of the band's songs. After listening to the Moontan album, something happened and Iommi wrote a riff that ended up being the main riff of title song "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".